Sutton Bingham - Wed 31 Aug

A bit of time available before work so I popped in to the reservoir and headed straight for the southern end to see if anything was about on the mud. Setting up the scope I counted six Common Sandpipers and a single Green Sandpiper along with five Teal. A fair number of Mallards were also gathered with around one hundred birds present. It was encouraging to see three Little Grebes (I have a feeling they have bred on site this year) and a total of four Little Egrets were noted.
Just as I was getting ready to head off to work I heard a wader call and the Green Sandpiper had taken to air, why? An Osprey was flying in from the south and it passed over my head towards the northern end of the reservoir, result! It soon came back to the southern end and I enjoyed watching it for several minutes before it drifted off south-west and was lost to view behind some trees.
A Raven was perched on one of the pylons and the Shelduck was still on the northern causeway.
Sutton Bingham year list 2016 now at 108 species.

Sutton Bingham - Tue 30 Aug

I got a call from the warden mid-morning telling me that an Osprey had just been seen from the Fishing Lodge, so I popped over for a quick visit during my lunch hour...but there was no sign of the bird. I am guessing, though don't know for sure, that it may have arrived last night and when the overnight fog lifted it simply headed off. It was almost a year to the day since I missed the last fly-through Osprey on patch!
The southern end of the reservoir produced a Green Sandpiper and eight Common Sandpipers. Two Little Egrets were on West Pool and the Shelduck was still about.

Sutton Bingham - Mon 29 Aug

A visit during the morning was somewhat productive with a Peregrine seen on one of the pylons at the southern end as well as two Mute Swans which appeared overnight (and were gone the next day). A couple of Common Sandpipers were seen and two Little Egrets were still present. Three Mandarin were noted and the long-staying Shelduck was still knocking around. Another Clouded Yellow was seen today.

Sutton Bingham - Sun 28 Aug

The Shelduck was still on the northern causeway today, it really does look settled! West Pool hosted a female Tufted Duck, my first on the patch for a few months, and a Little Grebe also. A juvenile Yellow-legged Gull was amongst the larger gulls present.
At the southern end of the reservoir two Green Sandpipers and five Common Sandpipers were noted and other birds of internet today included a Kingfisher and a Little Egret.
Finally, a Clouded Yellow was seen, my first of the year.

Sutton Bingham - Sat 27 Aug

A Greenshank was present on West Pool briefly late morning before flying south.

Sutton Bingham - Tue 23 Aug

A brief stop this morning could only produce two Common Sandpipers and three Little Egrets. A few visits over the past couple of days have not generated anything new, with at least one Great Black-backed Gull still hanging around, mainly on West Pool.

 

The Shelduck has still been around the northern causeway most days and Common Sandpipers have been present daily in small numbers. The dam produced a flock of forty Pied Wagtails on Sun 21 Aug and twenty Mistle Thrushes on Mon 22 Aug.

Sutton Bingham - Sat 20 Aug

An early morning visit produced a Greenshank (unsure whether it was last night's bird or not). Just as I was about to get one of my high-quality photos for this blog I heard another Greenshank call and two more birds flew through heading south, the bird on the deck decided it wanted company and flew off with them...so no picture I'm afraid! amazingly a return visit much later in the day produced yet another Greenshank near the car park. Other than the Greenshank (which numbered four today) it was more of the same today.